Artist battle

In my world:

Ras­mus Ras­mussen beats David Bowie.

¸tter beats Ras­mus but takes a beat­ing from Lady Sov­er­eign. And from PJ Har­vey.

Yup, like women and beats in kinda the same way: Dirty and loud…

(Dis­claimer: I really don’t have that much music on my lap­top and ipod shuf­fles don’t count on last.fm)

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Ban car alarms!




Ban car alarms!

Orig­i­nally uploaded by visual.resistance.


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On cool and uncool

New reload meme over at Kam­meret: How many reload does it take for your site to be shown in the blogroll? (6)

Mac love: Instruc­tions on pow­er­ing your Mac SE/30 with a Mac mini. I got both, if only I wasn’t so clumsy… [via Lange­mark]

And Peter Svarre reports from DIA; Non Dan­ish Inter­net Awards — seems like every­thing went as planned… Which is all but good.

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Sex Pistols spam

I just got a spam mail from Sid Vicious. He offers me what appears to be a great deal on Microsoft prod­ucts and Photoshop.

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Acme — the slim

When not in use, my 12″ Power­book lives in its padded home aka the Acme ‘the slim’ lap­top sleeve/bag. It’s a tight-fit sleeve-ish lap­top bag with room for noth­ing than the lap­top itself and a few slim items in the front pocket. Apart from its sim­ple design, the advan­tage of the Acme is its small form fac­tor, which makes it the per­fect hybrid between a lap­top sleeve and an actual bag. I use it as a sleeve inside my Chrome bag deep for­est iii com­parsa down­load mp3 but every once in a while, I head off to a meet­ing with­out the need for any­thing than my lap­top. And while it’s actu­ally a bit too metro for my lik­ing, it is kinda handy that it has a shoul­der­strap and a set of leather han­dles for carrying.

All in all, it looks a bit too slick, but is incred­i­bly prac­ti­cal com­pared to its fel­low sleeves.

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Chrome messenger bag

Ok, so I’m a bag fetishist. Or rather, I like what­ever I’m car­ry­ing to be well pro­tected while not caus­ing me any unnec­ces­sary pain. And you know, the right tool for the job and all that. And with the whole being mobile and car­ry­ing lots of gad­gets around-era going on, why not share this over­looked part of full blown con­sumerism as well. In any case, I like bags and have quite a few…

First, a quick look on my most trusted friend, the always-on-my-bag Chrome Cit­i­zen mes­sen­ger bag. I’ve had it for almost two years and apart from gen­eral wear and tear and the beat­i­ful camo pat­tern going a bit pale where it touches the back, I have to say it’s still as good as new. It doesn’t do any­thing fancy; one big com­part­ment, a small pocket on the front for keys and other small items and the usual place to put your pens — as if any­one ever had the need for that. It’s water­proof; the big com­part­ment is sur­rounded by some rub­bery fancy mate­r­ial I’m sure has a classy name I can’t remem­ber and is flow­ing freely within the Cor­dura outer shell.

The strap is heav­ily padded and has an extra strap for hold­ing it in place — a fea­ture that can func­tion as extra secu­rity as well, should some­one decide to push the big trade­mark buckle on the front. It’s incred­i­bly con­ve­nient not hav­ing to take the bag over the head all the time, so if you just get to unbuckle it your­self, it’s kinda clever.

I’ve had my hands on a lot of other mes­sen­ger bags that of course is the obvi­ous choice when you go around by bike a lot (go Copen­hagen) but this is by far the most com­fort­able. One thing it doesn’t do, how­ever, is being the usual shoul­derbag. The strap sim­ply isn’t long enough and is shaped in a way that doesn’t make that an option — which is fine by me; it’s not healthy any­way. The adjust­ment of the strap (which by the way is seat belt-ish) is pull-in-one-end, release-by-pulling-the-metal-ring-at-the-other-end which works fine but maybe isn’t as smooth as the Timbuk2 heavy-duty plas­tic buckle. A mat­ter of taste, I guess.

It’s big enough to hold a 15″ lap­top (I’m car­ry­ing a 12″) but isn’t padded enough for that use — you’ll need a seper­ate lap­top sleeve for that (more on that later). Due to it’s shape, it holds quite some stuff but quickly gets uncom­fort­able if you don’t pack it right. Ide­ally you should always have a lap­top or sim­i­larly flat against your back, which is pretty much the only thing I can think of that woudl go against rec­om­mend­ing this rugged piece of equip­ment. So it’s hereby recommended.

(I’m think­ing of doing more reviews / rec­om­men­da­tions. If you think that’s a stu­pid idea or just con­sumerism at its worst, leave a comment.)

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Idea bank

Oh, and remem­ber: AUX is present at the IV fes­ti­val in Copen­hagen til’ the end of the week. More info (in Dan­ish) at aux.dk.

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[DK] Blomst

This just in:

Af Michael Jensen

Blomst er der noget særprægede navn pÃ¥ et nyt ini­tia­tiv pÃ¥ den alter­na­tive københavnske musikscene. Blomst er en én-dags-festival, der vil løbe af sta­blen den 4. marts i Den GrÃ¥ Hal pÃ¥ Chris­tia­nia, hvor en række alter­na­tive musik­navne af bÃ¥de dansk og uden­landsk herkomst vil blive præsenteret for det københavnske pub­likum (og andre intersserede).

Blomst er skabt af en række unge men­nesker, der kalder sig selv Skaber­grup­pen, og som pÃ¥ forskel­lig vis har forbindelse til hov­ed­stadens musik­miljø. De tilstræber med dette nye ini­tia­tiv at præsentere et ambitiøst og ikke-kommercielt alter­na­tiv til den bestÃ¥ende københavnske musik– og klubscene.

Ban­dlis­ten til fes­ti­valen er endnu ikke kom­plet, men blandt de offentlig­gjorte navne finder man blandt andet fransk/japanske Colder, amerikanske Liars (billedet), svenske The Tough Alliance og Crunchy Frogs sen­este sign­ing Wolfkin, der pÃ¥ Blomst spiller deres debutkon­cert. Desu­den optræder ogsÃ¥ Ezo + Flext, der bestÃ¥r og bassis­ten Ã…smond (Euro­pussy) og Bjørn Svin.

Der vil senere blive føjet flere navne til pro­gram­met lige­som ogsÃ¥ infor­ma­tioner om bil­let­salg og priser først senere vil blive tilgængelige. Man kan løbende følge med pÃ¥ Blom­sts hjemme­side.

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[DK] Smølfehuset

Af denne side pÃ¥ Wikipedia om Vester­bro lærer jeg at det offentlige toi­let pÃ¥ Eng­have Plads gÃ¥r under navnet “Smølfehuset”.

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More podcast finds

Almost for­got Drum and Bass Arena: They’re pod­cast­ing too. So far a sin­gle mix, a video inter­view with Goldie and a girls cal­en­dar shoot video. Also, High Sound Pres­sure is cook­ing up some­thing drum’n’bassy.

Berlin under­ground radio TwenFM is pod­cast­ing.

sub­woofer, live from Budapest, seem to have died. A shame, I spent quite some time lis­ten­ing and watch­ing — they did live trans­mis­sion from their mix­ing stu­dios — back in the days where pod­cast­ing wasn’t the thing.

In local news, podhead.dk has a few pod­casts I checked out.

Tomas Krag of mul­ti­plic­ity fame is doing Pod­head Tech mag­a­sin.

And if you have trou­ble stay­ing awake, this ques­tion­ably named pod­cast, ¸r Det Selvud­vikling, just might freak you out and keep you from sleeping…

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Drawings

Adam K sug­gests we use blogs for what they’re good at and pro­vide a behind-the-scenes view of the sit­u­a­tion regard­ing JP’s draw­ings.

Mie Femø on the issue at Kforum.

And may I sug­gest we all jump a cab and head to the town square to burn Louise Frevert’s mobile phone and all the copies of JP we can find…

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Style deliverables

When I do stuff web development-wise, I usu­ally design, cut and code — or come in just after some poor print designer deliv­ered the PSDs.

Now I’m doing a job where I’ll do the design bit — but where some­one else will do the actual imple­men­ta­tion. So now I’ll have to get the mes­sage with regards to styling across to some­one else, some­thing I can com­plain about end­lessly when graphic design­ers fail to do that prop­erly when hand­ing over stuff to me.

Style guides are a genre in them­selves and I sus­pect they take a lot more time to do thatn one might think. So I thought about the most pre­cise way to describe styling I know. Turns out it’s the css itself.

Why not just do the css for the var­i­ous bits that need styling your­self? It’s accu­rate, saves time as your time is spent any­way and it allows your techie to just copy and paste — and if you’re good at css, chances are you’ll do a bet­ter job than the techie.

There are obvi­ous disadvantages:

While the over­all styling of typog­ra­phy is easy to do and prob­a­bly won’t inter­fere with the way the imple­men­ta­tion itself is done, styling of sec­tions etc. can prove dif­fi­cult as far as nam­ing is con­cerned. Just as you can’t skip mak­ing notes on gut­ters and other over­all lay­out deci­sions you don’t know how are implemented.

On the other hand, if you stick to mean­ing­ful names (as you should), as a min­i­mum it will be easy to under­stand — best case it can work as a plat­form for the actual code run­ning the site. In any case the techie will have to under­stand your code any­way and should be able to just use as much of it as is pos­si­ble. A few Pho­to­shop notes which explains what’s what should be plenty of information.

So the per­son cut­ting up your design gets all the mea­sures whereever he needs to go in any­way, all the over­all styling infor­ma­tion is pro­vided ready for use by you as css (no more look­ing at every sin­gle font for size, color etc.) and your style guide job is lim­ited to putting in notes on the names you’ve used in the css and some info on over­all thoughts on grid and concept.

In sit­u­a­tions where you work with the same devel­op­ers over and over, this could prove even more use­ful as you get to know each other’s cod­ing style.

Not exactly rocket sci­ence, I know — but I’ll try and give it a spin.

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Me me me meme

There’s another meme wave these days.

I’ve been tagged. Before respond­ing, let’s have a look at this thing. I’ve come across it numer­ous times the past week and was think­ing about post­ing this anyway.

Peo­ple either:

1) Respond, tag some­one
2) Pull the plug
3) Remix the meme

I’m not sure what I think of these things. It’s all in good spirit — some of them doesn’t offer much value, though. This, I’m afraid, is one of them.

The pat­tern is some­thing along “teenage jobs, cur­rent job — movies every­one knows — child­hood home, home abroad, cur­rent home — tv shows every­one knows/don’t watch tv — places every­one goes on vaca­tion — food every­one knows and eat — sites every­one uses all the time — in bed/someplace warm/some store with gad­gets — peo­ple every­one that reads your blog knows”.

So I’m with Matt Haughey on this one: “I looked over the stuff and real­ized I could do the four things for friends of mine before I even read their responses”.

Try­ing not to come across the ass that I really am, here are my answers. If you would like to answer these your­self, con­sider your­self tagged. If not…

Four jobs I’ve had:
Paper­boy
Dish­wash­her
Per­sonal assis­tant for hand­i­capped per­son
Dig­i­tal hippie

Four movies I can watch over and over:
I try not to, there are so many movies I haven’t seen yet.

Four places I’ve lived:
¸dby
Amager
Nord-Vest
Vesterbro

Four TV shows I love to watch:
Whatever’s on after 22

Four places I’ve been on vaca­tion:
Lon­don
Berlin
Rome
Havnsø

Four of my favorite dishes:
Proper pasta
Every­thing Indian
Rich soups
Sushi

Four sites I visit daily:
Google
23
Flickr
del.icio.us

Four places I’d rather be right now:
Some other cafe
Berlin
Lon­don
Rome

If you think you’ve learned some­thing valu­able and that I’m spe­cial, say yay — and get a life ;-)

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[DK] Blog som seriøs kommunikationsform

Om hvor­for det er beklageligt, at pro­fes­sionelle kommunikatører ikke har meget til overs for weblogs:

En muld­varp pÃ¥ Dansk pÃ¥ KUA (muld­varp som i “har rent fak­tisk sin daglige gang pÃ¥ stedet”) gÃ¥r i øjeblikket til et intenst kom­mu­nika­tion­skur­sus ifm. et praktikforløb under Sprog­lig rÃ¥dgivning (som har denne øjebæ i stedet for et website).

Der lærer de en masse om kom­mu­nika­tion ude i virke­lighe­den og har der­for i sagens natur en masse eksterne under­vis­ere, der har deres daglige virke…i virke­lighe­den. En sÃ¥dan ekstern (som jeg vil lade for­blive unavn­given lige­som hans virk­somhed da jeg selvk­lart ikke kender de præcise omstændigheder og ikke er ude i et per­son­ligt ærinde — lad os bare sige at det er et større københavnsk bureau, der rekrut­terer og under­viser en del fra og pÃ¥ Dansk) havde denne kom­men­tar til et spørgsmÃ¥l til blog­gin­gens rolle ifm. skriftlig stil og hen­ven­delses­former pÃ¥ nettet:

“Haha.. hvor­for vil I vide noget om weblogs? De er uin­ter­es­sante og utroværdige, da afsender­forholdet er uklart. Kom­m­mu­nika­tio­nen er grum­set.. smÃ¥ lommedagbøger.. Gider ikke at læse dem, men der er stadig folk, der tror at det er det helt store.. haha” (løseligt gen­givet efter muld­varpens hukommelse)

Dis­claimeren først: Der kan have været gode grunde ifm. den konkrete vinkel pÃ¥ denne dags kur­sus, lige­som per­son­lige meninger er helt fint med mig. Ligeledes lykkedes det hov­ed­per­so­nen at grave Arlas weblogs frem efter lidt betænkningstid over en pause, hvor­for det sÃ¥ abso­lut ikke skal fejes bort med en kom­men­tar om uvidenhed.

Men: ¸rst og fremmest skal man være en skidt kommunikatør og under­viser for folk, der om kort tid skal ud i en virke­lighed, hvor forholdet mellem virk­somhed og kunde er under pres, hvis man ignor­erer 30mio+ weblogs, ser bort fra at avis­erne sÃ¥ smÃ¥t er beg­y­ndt at eksper­i­mentere, Arla og andre har truf­fet deres valg og at hans egen virk­somhed i øvrigt lader til udmærket at vide, hvad det han­dler om.

Det hører naturligvis med til his­to­rien, at den mod­satte pÃ¥stand — at weblogs er det helt store og egenhændigt kan redde ver­den — er lige sÃ¥ absurd (omend jeg gladeligt delvis lev­erer skyts til det stand­punkt), men arro­gan­cen er slÃ¥ende (nej, jeg er ikke tøsesur) og jeg synes han gør de stud­erende en bjørnetjeneste ved kat­e­gorisk at benægte enhver accept af blo­gegns ind­tog og de gode ting det nu har ført med sig.

I en cor­po­rate kon­tekst kan man vel som min­i­mum notere sig:

- at Arlas afsender er tem­melig klar og det dagbogspræg der er over visse steder, er et bev­idst valg
– at alter­na­tivet, cen­tralt styret kom­mu­nika­tion gen­nem pressemed­delelser og øvrig webkom­mu­nika­tion, for de fleste tænkende indi­vider som min­i­mum vil have samme troværdighedsproblemer, og at:
– webloggen der­for er et af flere forsøg pÃ¥ at komme i øjenhøjde med kun­der, der er trætte af marketing-speak og idyl­lisk bondegÃ¥rdsreklamefilm.

Sidstnævnte kunne meget vel være den fornem­ste opgave for en kommunikatør i en større dansk virk­somhed, sÃ¥ skulle man ikke selv tro pÃ¥ webloggen som plat­form (og det er man i sin gode ret til), sÃ¥ kan man sikkert med fordel holde godt øje og høste de erfaringer der nu er.

Vores hov­ed­per­son lev­erede flere guld­korn, hvo­raf et af dem han­dlede om søgemaskineplacering som “de fleste weblogs sim­pelthen ikke hÃ¥ndterede lige sÃ¥ godt som alm. web­sites”. Efter en lang snak til de mÃ¥bende stud­erende om eye­track­ing og fokus­grup­per er det selvfølgelig et oplagt syn­spunkt, var det ikke fordi det, sÃ¥ vidt jeg kan regne ud mÃ¥ være lodret fork­ert. Den sam­lede mængde af udviklere pÃ¥ div. open source blog­ging­plat­forme lader til at have fat i den lange ende hvad kod­ning angÃ¥r ift. de fleste cor­po­rate web­sites’ tunge arv af gam­mel kode og middelmÃ¥dige udviklere.

Kot­tke nævner Dave Winer, der har kloge ord at sige om den del (og mange andre af tin­gene jeg netop har nævnt) pÃ¥ et Long Bet: “In a Google search of five key­words or phrases rep­re­sent­ing the top five news sto­ries of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times’ Web site.”

Kon­klu­sion: Don’t lis­ten to bad advice.

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This week’s recommendations

Stuff I’ve found recently:

Drowned In Sound pod­cast — indie stuff.
NYUB pod­cast — Not Your Usual Bol­locks. Just what it says; elec­tronic dance music and ener­getic rock.
Zoe’s Radio Show — 15 year old girl with bet­ter taste in music than you’ll ever get (if you’re into post-rock, alter­na­tive stuff)
Nerd­core “Nerd­core schreibt über neue Musik, gefährliche, schreiende und sprin­gende Musik. Nerd­core postet Links zu Mash-Ups, die die Musikin­dus­trie gar nicht gerne haben, warum auch immer.” Weekly list of mashups and remixes (good shit), news about music and pop­u­lar culture.

The Dan­ish pod­cast­ing scene is get­ting active as well; ¸tter, Pod­kam­meret, ¸hns on Mimertalks, Beo­cast and new kids on the block Genau [via Froda] and Affenkaf­fen — and probaly some I just for­got, sorry.

See also podcast.dk and keep your ears out forr upcom­ing pod­cast­ing events. Heck, I might even do some.

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The sound of silence

Ok, enough. Blogging’s gotta start again, I miss con­ver­sa­tion, shar­ing logging.

New plan is: Shorter posts with­out all the blab­ber­ing. Inspi­ra­tion: Winer, Tveskov, Pind etc.

Here goes:

Inter­est­ing down­load sec­tion over at Sat­uGO (bounc­ing ball cam­era not in pro­duc­tion yet); stuff for jour­nal­ists — and for blog­gers. (less inter­est­ing is their use of frames, bah).

Hen­rik Moltke is open­ing up his archives (and work­ing on open­ing the archives of DR, I hear — respect). Inter­views for other to work with, includ­ing tran­scripts. Rocks!

Avis­tid (which I had promised myself not to bash until we got our act together, so shoot me) has caught my atten­tion again. With­out know­ing it, I’ve seen their flash ban­ners for the last cou­ple days on pretty much every news­pa­per site, adver­tis­ing a new movie. Not until today the coin dropped; it’s not a motion pic­ture, it’s the new Avis­tid online movie. Or rather, it’s the new movie to be released in three days. So far, the only thing they’ve picked up from blog­ging is the “we’re gonna do this cool thing in a while”-part the rest of us wished e’d never got­ten into. On the pos­i­tive side, they’ve cleaned up their site a bit. On a Mac? No problem.

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[DK] SO

Tanke: Det L.O.C i virke­lighe­den mener er selvfølgelig “sig­nif­i­cant other”.

[inspi­ra­tion]

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[DK] E.B. moblogs

Som offi­cielt ans­varlig for at videre­bringe info om alt Ekstra Bladet gør, vil jeg blot notere følgende:

E.B./¸ren Juh­ler moblog hos Tex­tamer­ica
¥ vi se din smukke moblog?
Vind lækker mobil på din moblog
MOBIL-test af moblogs

¦g mærke til, at de ikke taler cam– eller billed­blogs, men regulære mobile blogs. ¥ ingen hÃ¥ndtegn fra E.B. til Flickr og 23, selvom den vinkel mÃ¥ske ville være endnu nem­mere at gÃ¥ til og passe bedre i kameratelefon-framingen.

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Berlincast

Berlincast.com: Sounds and Noises from Berlin.

Fine, sim­ple idea: Sound tours / record­ings of places in Berlin. I thought of doing it myself when I was in Berlin last sum­mer, but never got around to actu­ally post some­thing. Got a few record­ings but was in the equip­ment check­ing phase at the time. Got stuff from Copen­hagen planned — stay tuned.

Related: 100% Pure Ham­burg, audio from the city.

Pod­cast­ing is nice, but there are so many shows and con­fer­ence record­ings. That’s fine by me and I lis­ten to it a lot, but while these record­ings of course add voice, make it pos­si­ble to absorb infor­ma­tion while doing other things as well as make it avail­able at all, there’s so much more to sound. I miss more pod­casts where the sound is the point itself; the­atre of the mind and all that…

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[DK] The Prince of Darkness laver en KB

Der har været noget snak. Vi har talt lidt om det uheldige i at at smykke sig med stjålne fjer ifm. Kræftens Bekæmpelse. Det kom der ikke noget ud af. Hvem er offeret?, blev der blandt andet spurgt.

Nu har Ozzy Osbourne, the prince of Dark­ness fÃ¥et en pod cast. Eller ret­tere, han har lige sÃ¥ meget pod­cast som Kræftens bekæmpelse har weblogs.

¸rst skal man reg­istr­eres uden nærmere fork­lar­ing pÃ¥, hvad det indebærer. ¥ fÃ¥r man adgang til et lillebitte site i 90’er-stil med smÃ¥bitte videoer og smÃ¥bitte ‘pod cast’-klip i samme vin­duer. Ingen fork­lar­ing pÃ¥ podcasting-delen, ingen RSS (pod­cast­ing), no noth­ing. Som læsere af denne (efterhÃ¥nden sjældent opdaterede) blog vil vide, har lyd­filer i tvivl­som kvalitet og pod­cast­ing ikke nødvendigvis det store med hinan­den at gøre.

Og nÃ¥r den gode Ozzy ikke er i gang med at ødelægge resten af sine børns liv pÃ¥ tv, tror jeg han kunne være ganske under­hold­ende — ideen om lidt his­to­rier og en plade­ven­dende Ozzy burde gøre enhver Black Sabbath-fan klar pÃ¥ mere.

¥ her er offeret mig.

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[DK] Per Holm og Henrik Dahl

Per Holm er tilbage — i full effect som man siger…

¥r Mar­i­lyn Mon­roe og Prins­esse Diana kan trække teenagepiger med i døden, hvor­for skulle Hen­rik Dahl sÃ¥ ikke kunne trække forstadsfædre med over i nye forhold? (Forsvar for skilsmisse)

Damn…

[via tveskov]

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[DK] Homoprins

Ekstra Bladet: Prins Hen­rik sÃ¥ ‘bøssefilm’ med en ven. E.B. er slet ikke sÃ¥ fræk en dreng i klassen. Det er tydeligt hvilket rygte de forsøger at hænge his­to­rien op pÃ¥, men lave den direkte ref­er­ence vil de ikke.

Det er en gam­mel klas­siker; at jour­nal­is­ter “ved alt muligt” og bare ven­ter pÃ¥ det rette øjeblik. Folkestemnin­gen vender (go Alex), ¸rgen Leth bliver for irriterende, et konkur­rerende blad siges at ville bringe den hem­melige historie.

Eller — mÃ¥ske — er der trods alt grænser for, hvad der kan siges at være reelt inter­es­sant for den danske befolkn­ing. Der er sikkert endnu flere betragt­ninger det vil være rel­e­vant at have inde over og som man skal være jour­nal­ist for at være inde i, men here goes:

Et rygte udrÃ¥ber Prins Hen­rik til bøsse (og nævner Bent Mejd­ing og Susse Wold i noget hof-drama) — et andet vores statsmin­is­ter til H.C. Ørstedspark cross-dresser.

Og der er flere af dem, og de er helt sikkert gode nok for jeg kender en, hvis onkel er Falck-redder og engang i en by, hvis navn jeg har glemt…

Uen­deligt lig­e­gyldige his­to­rier (omend Anders Foghs vælgerskare sikkert vil mene det er helt forfærdeligt og yada-yada — lige­som jeg kender poli­tikere, der nævner Anders Fogh som muligt svagt punkt ift. natio­nens sikker­hed, da han i givet fald er et oplagt afpres­ning­sof­fer) med min­i­mal rel­e­vans for noget som helst. Blot en opfor­dring til E.B. og andre, der vil trække lidt pÃ¥ omtalte his­to­rier: ¥ hele vejen, kør Se & ¸r pÃ¥ deres røv — eller lad være.

Hvad er I bange for? Majestæsfornærmelse? ¥rligt forhold til det konge­hus, der betaler jeres løn gen­nem jeres lig­e­gyldige spis­es­edler? Eller ved I noget om medi­etak­tik jeg har overset…

Update: At “køre Se & ¸r pÃ¥ deres røv” er præcis lige sÃ¥ tamt.

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Umbraco 2.1 is out

It’s christ­mas again: Open source CMS umbraco is out in a 2.1 release includ­ing a crazy amount of bug fix­ing and some really nice new fea­tures. Go down­load. Good work, guys!

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[DK] Berlingske Journalistpris til Lasse Jensen

Lasse Jensen fÃ¥r prisen med direkte hen­vis­ning til Men­nesker og Medier — meget velfort­jent. [via Mediehack].

Foru­den at have et godt pro­gram, der omhan­dler noget sÃ¥ vigtigt som det aktuelle mediebillede og dets aktører, besid­der Lasse Jensen en desværre efterhÃ¥nden sjælden egen­skab: At turde og ville blive ved at spørge til der bliver svaret — og at have hold­ninger. Objek­tivitet — et kon­cept, der blandt tra­di­tionelle medier ofte bruges til at retfærdiggøre de ansattes arbe­jde og fremhæve det som bedre og mere rigtigt — er en fin ting (nÃ¥r ikke man glem­mer at det ofte er omend tem­melig prob­lema­tisk at pÃ¥kalde sig netop dette), og Lasse Jensen er bestemt fair. Men at ville stÃ¥ frem og mene noget er efterhÃ¥nden over­ladt til andre — jour­nal­is­terne rap­porterer blot og und­lader at lægge op til selve debat­ten. Det er synd, og er bl.a. aktuelt i George Clooneys fine lille film Good night, and good luck.

Jour­nal­is­ter har (eller burde have) alle muligheder for ikke at lade deres inter­viewofre glide af pÃ¥ spørgsmÃ¥lene. De er trænede, kender spillet og burde — især hvis de vil pÃ¥berÃ¥be sig stats­magt, objek­tivitet, vagth­und osv. — aldrig nogensinde lade sig spise af med stan­dard­svar og undvigemanøvrer. Det er desværre snarere reglen end und­tagelse nowa­days — i de fleste dele af verden.

Som en lille aside kunne Lasse Jensens web­site godt kræve til en kærlig tech-hÃ¥nd: Adressen kræver www og og der bruges frames i stor stil, hvilket gør det umuligt at linke direkte til en lille kreativ klasse-godbid; en brugt sta­tion­car park­eret non­cha­lant i gÃ¥rden pÃ¥ Profil-siden…

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[DK] En plov for patter og en sviner

Hvis du ikke var sÃ¥ god til at læse i skolen, kan du vise dine brys­ter og fÃ¥ 500 kro­ner ovre hos Ekstra Bladet. Bagefter vil en af deres jour­nal­is­ter gøre grin med dig og regne med du ikke fat­ter ironien i den præcise skildring af dig og dine.

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